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A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health

A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health

How health outcomes manifest within a digital ecosystem

Paper

van Kessel, R., Seghers, L.-E., Anderson, M., Schutte, N. M., Monti, G., Haig, M., Schmidt, J., Wharton, G., Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Larrain, B., Sapanel, Y., Stüwe, L., Bourbonneux, A., Yoon, J., Lee, M., Paccoud, I., Borga, L., Ndili, N., Sutherland, E., … Mossialos, E. (2025). A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 103(2), 110–125H.

Two-round internal consensus

Newly emerging
health challenges

This new framework should also incorporate recent insights, including those related to digital transformations, which were previously considered irrelevant

Robin van Kessel et al.

Authors

February 1, 2025

Published Online

Abstract

We conducted a scoping review to identify articles that outlined how established social, political or commercial and economic determinants of health have changed during rapid digital advancements, or that described emergence of new digital determinants of health. We followed the scoping review framework developed by Arksey & O’Malley and Levac et al.,18,19 and the manual for evidence synthesis for scoping reviews20,21 from JBI. We report our findings according to the PRISMA-ScR guidelines.

  • Robin van Kessel

  • Laure-Elise Seghers

  • Michael Anderson

  • Nienke M Schutte

  • Giovanni Monti

  • Madeleine Haig

  • Jelena Schmidt

  • George Wharton

  • Andres Roman-Urrestarazu

  • Blanca Larrain

  • Yoann Sapanel

  • Louisa Stüwe

  • Agathe Bourbonneux

  • Junghee Yoon

  • Mangyeong Lee

  • Ivana Paccoud

  • Liyousew Borga

  • Njide Ndili

  • Eric Sutherland

  • Marelize Görgens

  • Eva Weicken

  • Megan Coder

  • Heimar de Fatima Marin

  • Elena Val

  • Maria Cristina Profili

  • Monika Kosinska

  • Christine Elisabeth Browne

  • Alvin Marcelo

  • Smisha Agarwal

  • Monique F Mrazek

  • Hani Eskandar

  • Roman Chestnov

  • Marina Smelyanskaya

  • Karin Källander

  • Stefan Buttigieg

  • Kirthi Ramesh

  • Louise Holly

  • Andrzej Rys

  • Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat

  • Jerome de Barros

  • Yuri Quintana

  • Antonio Spina

  • Adnan A Hyder

  • Alain Labrique

  • Maged N Kamel Boulos

  • Wen Chen

  • Anurag Agrawal

  • Juhee Cho

  • Jochen Klucken

  • Barbara Prainsack

  • Ran Balicer

  • Ilona Kickbusch

  • David Novillo-Ortiz

  • Elias Mossialos

Bull World Health Organ 2025;103:110–125H

Epub 2024 Oct 29.
© 2025 The authors; licensee World Health Organization.

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